Tunequest Topic: mp3
December 14th, 2007
For nearly as long as there's been an Internet, fans have been contributing to the nine inch nails experience. There's something about the music that seems to inspire a devotional following (probably has to do with expressions of angst, contempt and alienation wrapped appealing pop sensibilities). Youthful rebelliousness and antiestablishmentism runs deep through both camps.
Indeed, the rise of nin and the net seems to have coincided perfectly with ...
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November 5th, 2007
So Amazon recently threw its hat into the thunderdome of online digital music sales. The store's big brand name and huge retail operation instantly make it one of the top tier marts for digital music. As Amazon MP3 is seen primarily as a challenger to the iTunes Store's throne, I originally wanted to do a compare and contrast with that gorilla, but later thought that unfair to eMusic, who ...
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July 9th, 2007
This song is perhaps the greatest mystery in the entirety of my music collection. It's a fairly sophisticated remix of the song Twift Shoeblade from Mouse on Mars' third album Autoditacker (1997).
The tempo is a little faster, the arrangement has a little more punch and it has been resequenced slightly. Not to snub the original at all, but I must say I pretty much prefer the remixed version.
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July 6th, 2007
A number of people pointed out to me recently that Radiohead's seminal masterpiece, OK Computer, turned ten years old a couple weeks ago. That's right, it's been a full decade since the band began to cement its reputation as "world's greatest rock band."
Where does the time go? It seems like just yesterday, my friend Dan was imploring me to give Radiohead a shot. At this point in the ...
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June 28th, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/v/bM7tdWRkBp0
I was tempted to let this pass without comment, but it's just so intriguing. It's a mash up of the Beatles Come Together and Nine Inch Nails' Closer by DJ Zebra. The ending is a bit flubbed, but overall this is a very good combination.
It's particularly noteworthy since both sources are rock songs and it's rare to see good rock mash ups. Because of the way most rock ...
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April 28th, 2007
I spent a portion of this Saturday going through my extended archive of music, the stuff that's not in my central, everyday iTunes library. Most of those files are a bit old and for either quality or tagging reason, they've been left unincorporated. Some of these songs have been sitting untouched and unlistened to on cds and hard drives for years.
So I've decided to start sorting and evaluating them ...
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February 26th, 2007
So, by now, large portions of the internet is abuzz with the Federal jury decision that Microsoft has been violating some of Alcatel-Lucent's patents on the MP3 file format, which ahas been the backbone of the digital music revolutions and without which iTunes and the iPod would not have been possible.
I couldn't help but note the timing of the ruling, since I had been been researching MP3 patents ...
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February 9th, 2007
Volkher at livingwithmusic posted the other day a rather thoughtful treatise against digital music files as a medium. He does a good job of bringing up all the relative shortcomings of abandoning physical media, including the effort required to encode/download and properly organize/tag files as well as the burden and cost that goes into storage and preventative backups. And he's right on the money about picking an audio format ...
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August 4th, 2006
Free Download: Anatomy of a Gutless Wonder
Anatomy of a Gutless Wonder was one of the last songs released by Velocity Girl before the group's break up in late 1996. It's only available as the b-side to the 7" single Nothing from the group's final album gilded stars and zealous hearts. I picked it up (along with the Your Smiling Face single) directly from subpop.com in my early college days ...
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